Azomite - Welded Tuff Deposit East #3

Occurrence in Sanpete county in Utah, United States with commodity Volcanic Materials
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015545
MRDS ID DB01414
Record type Site
Current site name Azomite - Welded Tuff Deposit East #3

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.91856, 39.36107 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position 0.7 MILE SE INTERSECTION UTAH ROUTE 28 AND SANPETE-JUAB COUNTY LINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanpete(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hells Kitchen Canyon SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Manti(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Sanpete

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 017S 001W 03 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUB.: SE 1/4 SW 1/4 NW 1/4 SEC. 03

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Volcanic Materials Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Tuff Ore

Analytical data

Result 20 % PUMICE, 20 % GLASS SHARDS, 15 % SANIDINE, 5 % OLIGOCLASE, 35 % DEVITRIFIED GLASS

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Welded Tuff
    Rock unit name Goldens Ranch Welded Tuff
    Rock description Goldens Ranch Welded Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Welded Tuff
    Rock unit name Goldens Ranch Formation
    Rock description Goldens Ranch Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.91856, 39.36107

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Gunnison Plateau Syncline
Type of structure Local
Structure description Abundant Normal Faulting

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 7.32M
    Length 765.52M
    Width 18.29M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 7.32M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Azome Utah Mining Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.012HA
    Overall length 20M
    Overall width 6.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF DOZER CUT PROSPECT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: PRATT AND CALLAGHAN, UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY BULL. 85 , 1970

  • Deposit

    PRATT, A. P., AND CALLAGHAN, E., 1970 , LAND AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SANPETE COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY BULL. 85

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1978 Dollar, Robert S. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.